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Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychol Rev. 2020 May 8;30(4):461–476. doi: 10.1007/s11065-020-09436-6

Table 3.

Cognitive Tests and Domains

First Author, Year Cognitive Test(s) Domain
Aarts, 2013 Go/No-Go (number error, number hit, speed error, speed hit) Inhibition
Aizenstein, 2009 Preparing to Overcome Prepotency (RT) Inhibition
Alexopoulos, 2015 Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
TOL (total moves across 10 trials) Planning
Andersson, 2010 D-KEFS Tower Planning
Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
Baudic, 2004 Haylings Test-B (errors) Inhibition
MCST (number of categories) Planning
MCST (perseverations) Planning
Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Baune, 2006 Stroop (CW – C time) Inhibition
Bobb, 2012 Stop Signal Task (RT) Inhibition
Boone, 1995 Stroop (CW) Inhibition
WCST (number of categories, perseverative responses) Planning
Boyle, 2010 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Bredemeier, 2016 Plus-Minus Task (switch cost) Set Shifting
Stop Signal Task (RT) Inhibition
Brevik, 2013 D-KEFS CW Interference Test Inhibition
Brewster, 2017 Compositea Composite
Brooks, 2010 CNS Vital Signs Stroop (complex RT, RT, simple RT) Inhibition
Bunce, 2008 Shape-color Switching Task (RT) Set Shifting
Stroop (incongruent RT) Inhibition
Butters, 2004 Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (number of errors) Planning
Channon, 1996 WCST (nonperseverative errors, perseverative errors, trials to completion) Planning
Channon, 1999 Response Suppression Test (categorized completions, nonsensical sentences errors, total time) Inhibition
Charlton, 2014 Compositeb Composite
Clawson, 2013 Modified Flanker (incongruent preceded by congruent trial errors and RT, incongruent preceded by incongruent trial errors and RT) Inhibition
Constant, 2005 Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
Egger, 2008 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Elderkin-Thompson, 2006 WCST (number of categories) Planning
Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
Favre, 2008 Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time, errors) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (number of categories, loss of set, perseverative errors) Planning
Franz, 2011 D-KEFS Fluency Switching Set Shifting
D-KEFS Trails Switching Cognitive Flexibility
Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
Godard, 2011 Conditional RT Test (commission errors) Inhibition
Grant, 2001 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (number of categories, total errors, perseverative responses, perseverative errors, loss of set, learning to learn) Planning
Intra-Dimensional Extra-Dimensional Set Shifting (stages completed, pre-extradimensional errors, adjusted extra-dimensional shifting errors) Set Shifting
Stocking of Cambridge (problems solved in minimum moves, initial thinking time for 5, 4, 3, and 2 moves) Planning
Gualtieri, 2006 Compositec Composite
Halari, 2009 Simon Task (Simon effect RT, errors to Simon trials) Inhibition
Stop Signal Task (probability of inhibition, stop signal RT, mean RT) Inhibition
Switch Task (switch cost, errors to switch trials) Inhibition
Halvorsen, 2012 D-KEFS CW Inhibition Inhibition
D-KEFS CW Inhibition/Switching Set Shifting
Halvorsen, 2012 D-KEFS Fluency switching Set Shifting
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST-64 (number of categories, perseverative responses) Planning
Han, 2016 WCST (number of trials, nonperseverative errors, perseverative errors, total errors) Planning
Harper, 2016 Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
Hermens, 2010 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Hill, 2013 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (percent errors) Planning
Holmes, 2008 Stroop (accuracy, RT) Inhibition
Jungwirth, 2011 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Katz, 2010 Go/No-Go (percent hits, percent false alarm, RT) Inhibition
Kaymak, 2010 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Verbal fluency-alternation Set Shifting
WCST (percent conceptual level responses, perseverative errors, total errors, trials to first category) Planning
Kikuchi, 2012 Stroop CW (error rate, RT) Inhibition
Kindermann, 2000 Stroop (CW total) Inhibition
WCST (perseverative errors, total errors, loss of set) Planning
Klojcnik, 2017 Stroop (interference score) Inhibition
Klojcnik, 2017 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Koenig, 2015 Stroop Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (total errors) Planning
Krompinger, 2011 Stroop (incongruent accuracy, RT) Inhibition
Ladouceur, 2012 Flanker (incongruent percent errors, RT) Inhibition
Langanecker, 2005 Go/No-Go (No-Go RT easy trials, No-Go RT difficult trials, No-Go % correct inhibition easy trials, No-Go % correct inhibition difficult trials Inhibition
Lyche, 2011 ANT executive (RT) Inhibition
D-KEFS CW Inhibition Inhibition
D-KEFS CW Switching Inhibition
Maalouf, 2011 Stocking of Cambridge (number of moves) Planning
Mackin, 2009 Stroop (CW total) Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST-64 (total errors) Planning
Naismith, 2006 Stroop Inhibition
Naismith, 2006 TOL Planning
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (total errors) Planning
Oral, 2012 Stroop 5 (reading time) Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (number of categories, percent total correct, percent error, trials to first category) Planning
Pantzar, 2014 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Pantzar, 2017 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Philippot, 2017 Stroop (interference errors) Inhibition
TMT-B (errors) Cognitive Flexibility
Pizzagalli, 2006 Flanker (Eriksen effect accuracy and RT) Inhibition
Porter, 2003 TOL (number of excess moves, average initial thinking time, average subsequent thinking time, perfect solution percent) Planning
Purcell, 1998 TOL (number of excess moves, initial movement time, initial thinking time, perfect solution percentage, subsequent movement time, subsequent thinking time) Planning
Quinn, 2012 Go/No-Go (commission errors, omission errors, RT, RT variability) Inhibition
Rainer, 2006 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Rajtar-Zembaty, 2017 Go/No-Go (accuracy) Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Rizk, 2017 Stroop (interference RT) Inhibition
Royall, 2012 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Salvat-Pujol, 2017 Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Mazes Planning
Stroop (CW, interference) Inhibition
TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Sanders, 2006 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Schmid, 2013 D-KEFS CW Inhibition Inhibition
D-KEFS CW Inhibition Switching Set Shifting
D-KEFS Fluency Switching Set Shifting
D-KEFS Tower Planning
D-KEFS Trail Making Switching Cognitive Flexibility
Shehab, 2016 Stockings of Cambridge (number of moves) Planning
Sheline, 2006 Composited Composite
Shimada, 2014 TMT-B (completion time) Cognitive Flexibility
Siegle, 2004 Stroop (incongruent accuracy, RT) Inhibition
Tanaka, 2012 Stroop (incongruent - congruent accuracy, RT) Inhibition
Taylor Tavares, 2007 Intra-Dimensional Extra-Dimensional Set Shifting (stages completed, total errors) Set Shifting
Tu, 2012 Color TMT-B Cognitive Flexibility
WCST (number of trials, nonperseverative errors, perseverative errors) Planning
Uemura, 2014 TMT-B (“points”) Cognitive Flexibility
Vergara-Lopez, 2013 Stop Signal Task (RT) Inhibition
TOL Planning
WCST (perseverative errors) Planning
Wagner, 2015 TEA-Ch Set Shifting (accuracy, RT) Set Shifting
Wingo, 2013 D-KEFS CW Inhibition Set Shifting
D-KEFS Trail Making Number-Letter Cognitive Flexibility
Wingo, 2013 Sequencing Stop Signal Task (RT) Inhibition
Zhang, 2007 Go/No-Go (commission errors, omission errors, RT) Inhibition
WCST (“random error”, “total trial”, perseverative errors Planning
Zhang, 2016 Go/No-Go (hit rate, RT) Inhibition

Note. RT = reaction time, TOL = Tower of London, D-KEFS = Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System, MCST = Modified Cart Sorting Test, TMT = Trail Making Test, CW = Color-Word, C = Color, WCST = Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, ANT = Attention Network Test

a

Composite comprised Stroop Color Word Test, and Trail Making Test

b

Composite comprised D-KEFS Category Switching (total correct), TMT-B (completion time), Stroop (interference score), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Third Edition Digits Backward (total score), and Self-ordered Pointing Task (number of errors)

c

Composite comprised CNS Vital Signs Stroop (RT) and Shifting Attention Test

d

Composite comprised phonological and semantic fluency, TMT-B, Stroop CW, Dementia Rating Scale Initiation and Perseveration score, and WCST number of categories